topic Re: Extracting character and numeric values in different variables in SAS Programming

Extracting character and numeric values in different variables

draroda — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 08:27:08 GMT

Dear All,

Please help in below.

Values Character Numeric

ABC123 ABC 123

12AB45 AB 1245

12345A A 12345

A12D52 AD 1252

123456 123456

Can you please guide on how can i extract numeric and character in different ?

Re: Extracting character and numeric values in different variables

Jagadishkatam — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 08:43:27 GMT

Data have;
set want;
character=compress(values,,ka);
numeric=compress(values,,kd);
run;

Re: Extracting character and numeric values in different variables

Steelers_In_DC — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:58:23 GMT

Here is a solution:

data have;
input values$;
cards;
ABC123
12AB45
12345A
A12D52
123456
;

data want;
set have;
NUMERIC = prxchange("s/[^0-9]//",-1,values);
CHARACTERS = prxchange("s/[^A-Z]//",-1,values);
NUMBERS = input(prxchange("s/[^0-9]//",-1,values),8.);
run;